‘Community’ on Yahoo: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Six seasons and a movie … and another stop at the San Diego Comic-Con. Community, saved at the 11th hour by Yahoo! TV, will return to this year’s convention on Thursday, July 24 to celebrate the show’s new home and another year with the gang of Greendale.

I would temper that I feel, just as a regular fellow looking at the whole thing, it seems so impossible to pull off. So many deals would have to be made that aren’t currently made. So many contracts would have to be negotiated.

It's been so long since I've seen the young maiden. My love is stronger than my fear of death. #SixSeasonsAndAMovie

Then the impossible occurred. Yahoo! revived Community for at least one more season just three hours before a July 1 deadline (when the actor’s contracts expired with Sony Productions). The possibility for more Community beyond a sixth season remains a possibility, Yahoo chief marketing officer Kathy Savitt told Vulture:

Our hope is to build and extend and prolong… that it has a healthy future for season six and well beyond.

"I had no doubt it would be back. Like a Japanese general in WW2, the only 2 options were victory or suicide" @JoelMcHale#community#sdcc

3. The Show Will Reach 100 Episodes

Community aired 97 episodes over its five seasons on NBC, coming up three shy of the coveted 100 episode mark. With the renewal, the show will celebrate that achievement in episode three of its 13-episode sixth season. Yahoo plans to air each new episode this fall on a weekly basis, rather than releasing them all at once.

1 down, 12 to go! “@crythecrawling: @danharmon Are…people demanding specific plots? Because I want in on that! Write an episode about cats.”

All 97 episodes of Community can be streamed on Hulu and purchased at Amazon and iTunes. Harmon joked at the Comic-Con panel about those who illegally download the show:

Community season six: now you’re watching the way you used to watch only now it’s legal.

Watch the cast discuss their thoughts on the show ending just short of 100 episodes, before their sixth season renewal, in the video above (starts at 2:12).

4. Harmon and Cast Tease Next Season of ‘Community’ at Comic-Con

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When the cast and their creator reconvene at San Diego Comic-Con, they will recap season five and discuss what’s next for Jeff Winger and his study buddies. If Harmon gets his wish that could mean a possible return of Donald Glover and his character Troy Barnes. He explained at Community‘s 2014 PaleyFest panel what extreme measures he would take to have Glover back at Greendale:

I’m just going to go home, kill a chicken, drink its blood, make a Blair Witch thing out of its bones, pray to every deity that I have to that if we do get a sixth season that Donald will have tired of his Donald-ness.

5. President Barack Obama Wanted ‘Community’ Back

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McHale thought a season six renewal was a forgone conclusion when President Barack Obama asked about the show’s future when McHale hosted this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner. He told Variety about his surprise to NBC’s cancellation of his show:

Our ratings were good compared to the other NBC comedies. After President Obama asked me if it was coming back or not at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, I really thought, ‘well this seems to be in the zeitgeist.’